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Telepresence Interaction by Touching Live Video Images
This paper presents a telepresence interaction framework based on touchscreen
and telepresence-robot technologies. The core of the framework is a new user
interface, Touchable live video Image based User Interface, called TIUI. The
TIUI allows a remote operator to not just drive the telepresence robot but
operate and interact with real objects by touching their live video images on a
pad with finger touch gestures. We implemented a telepresence interaction
system which is composed of a telepresence robot and tele-interactive objects
located in a local space, the TIUI of a pad located in a remote space, and the
wireless networks connecting the two spaces. Our system can be a perfect
embodiment of a remote operator to do most of daily living tasks, such as
opening a door, drawing a curtain, pushing a wheelchair, and other like tasks.
The evaluation and demonstration results show the effectiveness and promising
applications of our system